Fox5 reports Atlanta Police may have found the vehicle involved in a hit-and-run that left cyclist and Atlanta Time Machine founder Greg Germani in a coma. (h/t: Decaturish)
Decaturish also reports today that the reward for information leading the arrest of the driver has reached nearly $30,000.
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How do they even know they have the right vehicle??
It was found two blocks North of the crime scene. The direction the vehicle was originally coming from. If you examine the scene on the map it is likely the suspect lived or worked in that area because there’s not much other reason for being on that street. Also I recall that recovered paint chips at the crime scene. Then there’s putting a tarp over a vehicle in an indoor parking garage and removing the license plates.
Hmmm, the car has front end damage, it was covered with a tarp, the license plate was removed and the driver has mysteriously disappeared. It’s such a crappy vehicle that few were sold and less are on the road…I think it’s fair to say they’ve found it.
On Decaturish it’s reported that the vehicle has Michigan plates, so it may be that the police removed them.
A neighbor in the apartment complex where the car was found reported that he thought the car had a Michigan tag.The perp removed it, not the APD. Read the Fox 5 story, not Decaturish. I have to admit, Fox 5 has much better coverage of this than any other media outlet in town as of about 7:00 tonight.
That’s $30k. Just need to tip on who driver is and it is all yours. That ain’t chump change. Maybe the tip that found the vehicle leads to the person, but maybe there’s someone interested in sharing in that. Hey, just split it, $15k, not bad…
No wonder the Atlanta Time Machine has not been updated. I wondered what had happened.
Hopefully, the perp didn’t tamper with the VIN, which will be just as good for identifying him. Given his haste, I doubt if he did.
Also, the Fox5 story said that neighbors reported a) the vehicle was parked on the wrong level and b) he had been seen aggressively driving in that deck previously.
I think it is pretty difficult to do that given the multiple locations of VIN numbers, some of which are hard to reach. So hopefully he missed a few (surely he tried to remove them from the obvious places).